L'AM. Mais fi je t'aidois à charmer
La jeune, la brilliante Flore.-
Tu rougis-vas-tu dire encore,
Andur, Je ne veux plus aimer?

Le P. Non, Dieu charmant, daigne former
Pour nous une chaine eternelle;

Mais pour tout ce qui n'eft point elle,
Amour, je ne veux plus aimer.

LOVE. But fhould I give thee charms t' obtain
Flora, the young, the bright, the gay !
I fee thee blufh-now, rebel, fay,
No, Love-I ne'er will love again.

POET. No, charming God, prepare a chain
Eternal for that fair and ine!

Yet still know every fair but fhe,
I've vow'd I ne'er will love again.

VENUS AND ADONIS,

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SET BY M R. HANDE L.

RECITATIVE.

BEHOLD where weeping Venus ftands!

What more than mortal grief can move

The bright, th' immortal Queen of Love?
She beats her breast, she wrings her hands;
And hark, the mourns, but mourns in vain,
Her beauteous, lov'd Adonis, flain.
The hills and woods her lofs deplore;
The Naiads hear, and flock around;

And Echo fighs, with minick found,
Adonis is no more!

Again the goddess raves, and tears her hair;
Then vents her grief, her love, and her despair.

AIR.

Dear Adonis, beauty's treasure,
Now my forrow, once my pleasure ;

O return to Venus' arms!
Venus never will forfake thee;
Let the voice of Love.o'ertake thee,
And revive thy drooping charms.

RE.

RECITATIVE.

Thus, Queen of Beauty, as thy Poets feign,
While thou didst call the lovely fwain;

Transform'd by heavenly power,

The lovely fwain arose a flower,

And, fmiling, grac'd the plain.

And now he blooms, and now he fades ;
Venus and gloomy Proferpine

Alternate claim his charms divine;

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By turns reftor'd to light, by turns he feeks the fhades.

AIR.

Tranfporting joy,

Tormenting fears,

Reviving fmiles,

Succeeding tears,

Are Cupid's various train.

The tyrant boy

Prepares his darts,

With foothing wiles,

With cruel arts,

And pleasure blends with pain.

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PASTORA L.

SET BY DR. PEPUS CH.

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RECITATIVE.

OUNG Strephon, by his folded sheep,
Sat wakeful on the plains:

Love held his weary eyes from fleep,

While, filent in the vale,

The liftening nightingale

Forgot her own, to hear his ftrains.
And now the beauteous Queen of Night,
Unclouded and ferene,

Sheds on the neighbouring sea her filver light;
The neighbouring fea was calm and bright;
The fhepherd fung infpir'd, and blefs'd the lovely fcene.

AIR.

While the sky and feas are fhining,
See, my Flora's charms they wear;
Secret night, my joys divining,

Pleas'd my amorous tale to hear;
Smiles, and foftly turns her fphere.
While the fky and feas are fhining,
See, my Flora's charms they wear.

RE